Pam and Chris?

Wow! I really forgot what it's like to eat a nice meal without breaking up an arguement, wiping up a spill, cleaning faces and hands, or satisfying any other need of my children! My husband treated me to dinner tonight at Red Lobster! We had an uninterrupted adult conversation all the way to Tuscaloosa, sat at a booth (not an extended table with a highchair), and ordered a meal without figuring up how much it would cost for all 5 of us! I have to say, it was just amazing! We had forgotten what it was like to be Pam and Chris, instead of Mommy and Daddy! I must tell you that many times I have had doubts. When I was working all the time and away from home, I though I had made a bad choice. Sitting at work all day long and then coming home to a dirty house, chores not done, homework forgotten, and a husband asleep in his chair, I blamed him. I thought he was lazy, that he didnt care how I felt, that he wasn't the man I married, and even worse I wondered if I just married him because I was scared of being alone! And I can imagine he felt the same way about me. But, tonight helped me realize that he wasnt our problem, and neither was I. It was our lack of time together! All day everyday, we have work, children, housework, yardwork, bills and STRESS!!!! Before we know it, we have forgotten why we started it in the first place! Or at least I did! Don't get me wrong, I love the things we are able to do as a family. However, every now and then we need a reminder of the beginning, what it was like before the kids. The first look, the first date, the first touch, the first kiss....how amazing those things felt! Tonight, I remembered all the things I love about us.....and it made all those everyday mountains look like ant hills! Before it was "The Clinks", it was just Pam and Chris!